How To Cut An Avocado

Most of us also know how to cut and prepare them but when my cousin requested a How To on this, I was up for the challenge. Because, she’s awesome and if I can help her and you, then I will.

To warn you, I did this quickly, while I was slicing one up for a salad. Thankfully, I just gave myself a manicure, but still…excuse the weirdness of my hand{s} making cameos.

The hardest part of this is actually finding an avocado that is ripe. Not too hard, not too soft. If you gently press it, it’ll give way. Just a smidgen. Too much and it’ll be too ripe…brown when you cut into it. That’s not fun.

The more you practice, the easier it’ll become to find a perfect avocado.

With your ripe avocado, carefully halve it lengthwise.

And yes, you should use one hand to hold the knife and one hand to hold the avocado.

I also needed one hand to hold the camera. Hence the weirdness I warned you about.

Once you’ve cut around the avocado, hold a half with each and and twist so that the halves separate.

Gently pull them apart.

I’m currently singing the avocado’s praises just looking at this.

Breathtaking, I tell ya.

The next step is the trickiest. Removing the pit/seed. It’s pretty slippery and hard to grasp. The easiest way to remove it, that I’ve found, is by using your knife.

So yes, I caution you. Do this at your own risk. You can either whack into it with your knife, as you hold your avocado half with your other hand, or you can a spoon and scoop it out.

If you use your knife, once it’s “lodged” into the pit, twist the knife and pit and it should come right out.

Once the pit is out, set it aside.

Depending how you’re preparing to use the fruit, slice it appropriately.

For guacamole, no slicing is needed, simply scoop it out with a spoon.

You can use your knife to slice it lengthwise for larger pieces or slice both horizontally and vertically to create smaller chunks.

Using a large spoon, scoop it out placing the spoon between the skin and the avocado.

If you’re using the entire avocado, then you’re done…

…however, if you have leftovers, place the pit back in the center of the unused half.

And cover with the leftover skin.

If placed in an airtight container in the fridge like this, it won’t brown as quickly.